site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Good news and bad news for you. Let's start with the good news. NOW FOR THE BAD NEWS: I filed a bug on this one yesterday. rdar://5582578 -- m-s On 07 Nov, 2007, at 04:04, Peter Mulholland wrote: Hello Stéphane, Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7:56:13 AM, you wrote: It's -aV - uppercase to set, lowercase to remove. You can also use the UNIX way - call the file .background.png or so. The only problem with this is it can be a bit of a swine to set it in Finder, although if memory serves you can put in the filename into the file dialog and it will find it. I do it this way because up until this post, I didn't realise there were extra file flags :) What I would like to know, is if there is any way to set the background image without having to faff about in Finder - some command line tool, for example. I guess you could make Finder do it with some AppleScript. 3. Click on the icon zone in the Info window and copy and paste your icon Or just copy a file as .VolumeIcon.icns to the root of the dmg :) -- Best regards, Peter mailto:darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/mikey-san%40bungie.org _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... You can set the "background picture" property of a folder's container window with Finder via AppleScript. In order to get this to work with a disk image's mounted volume, you have to mount the volume, copy the image file to the volume, open the window of the volume, then set the property for that. Set it as invisible with SetFile and you're done. Easy peasy. (I do this all the time in my custom dmg tool chain.) If you set the volume's window to an image on your drive, well, it won't be found when the disk image mounts. (It has to be present on the image volume.) In Leopard, the ability to set the background picture of a folder window is somewhat broken. In fact, you're going to get this error if the background picture resides on a mounted volume, which is required to get this to work: "Finder got an error: Couldn't make file [path to background picture on the volume] into type file." Works in Tiger perfectly, doesn't in Leopard. But if the background picture resides on your hard drive, you can set the background picture of a folder successfully. Nutshell: If the background picture resides on a mounted volume, the command won't work. 1. Copy the background picture file to the Disk Image 2. Use the View Options inspector to set the background image. 3. Make the background image invisible with the /DevTools/SetFile utility. The most difficult part here is to remember whether it's v or V that makes a file invisible. 1. Select the mounted disk image volume 2. Choose File >> Get Info A better solution could be to use Pixadex to set the icon. This email sent to mikey-san@bungie.org This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com